ReviewFrontiers in physiology2019
Visual Imprinting in Birds: Behavior, Models, and Neural Mechanisms.
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- Filial Imprinting: Behaviour and Neurobiology.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Behavioral characteristics of rapid visual categorization learning in domestic chicks.Learning & behavior · 2026Article
- Assessing preferences for adult versus juvenile features in young animals: Newly hatched chicks spontaneously approach red and large stimuli.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
- Predation experiments with 3D-printed lizard models yield limited responses in pheasants.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Neural Processing without OPhysiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Development and Characterization of Primary Brain Cultures from Japanese Quail Embryos.Bio-protocol · 2024Article
- First-sight recognition of touched objects shows that chicks can solve Molyneux's problem.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Src-NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 complex and recognition memory of imprinting in domestic chicks.PloS one · 2024Article
- A custom-made AAV1 variant (AAV1-T593K) enables efficient transduction of Japanese quail neurons in vitro and in vivo.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Parental behavior and newborn attachment in birds: life history traits and endocrine responses.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Temporal hampering of thyroid hormone synthesis just before hatching impeded the filial imprinting in domestic chicks.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Mother-young bond in non-human mammals: Neonatal communication pathways and neurobiological basis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Imprintability of Newly Hatched Domestic Chicks on an Artificial Object: A Novel High Time-Resolution Apparatus Based on a Running Disc.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Nine Levels of Explanation : A Proposed Expansion of Tinbergen's Four-Level Framework for Understanding the Causes of Behavior.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects.Learning & behavior · 2021Article
- Light, Sleep and Performance in Diurnal Birds.Clocks & sleep · 2021Review
- Src and Memory: A Study of Filial Imprinting and Predispositions in the Domestic Chick.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- No evidence of spontaneous preference for slowly moving objects in visually naïve chicks.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Filial imprinting is a process, readily observed in precocial birds, whereby a social attachment is established between a young animal and an object that is typically (although not necessarily) a parent. During a perinatal sensitive period, the young animal learns characteristics of the object (the imprinting stimulus) simply by being exposed to it and will subsequently recognize and selectively approach this stimulus. Imprinting can thus establish a filial bond with an individual adult: a form of social cohesion that may be crucial for survival. Behavioral predispositions can act together with the learning process of imprinting in the formation, maintenance, and modification of the filial bond. Memory of the imprinting stimulus, as well as being necessary for social recognition, is also used adaptively in perceptual classification of sensory signals. Abstract features of an imprinting stimulus, such as similarity or difference between stimulus components, can also be recognized. Studies of domestic chicks have elucidated the neural basis of much of the above behavior. This article discusses (1) principal behavioral characteristics of filial imprinting and related predispositions, (2) theoretical models that have been developed to account for this behavior, and (3) physiological results elucidating the underlying neural mechanisms. Interactions between these different levels of analysis have resulted in advancement of all of them. Taken together, the different approaches have helped define strategies for investigating mechanisms of learning, memory, and perception.
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